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Lecture 1: Food Security
World food summit of 1996 definit...,
Do more people die from hunger ma...,
More than ______ people still do ...
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Lecture 2: Biology of weeds
The world population is predictiv...,
More than ____ people of not have...,
___ people live on less than 1 a day
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Lecture 3: Biological Control of Weeds
3 biological control strategies,
Classical control,
Conservation control
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Lecture 4: Chemical Control of Weeds
The global pesticide market was v...,
Synthetic pesticides were worth a...,
Biopesticides were worth a total ...
46
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Lecture 5: Traditional crop breeding
The varieties of plants we real o...,
How are seeds stored around the w...,
Was domestication of plants achie...
40
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Lecture 6: How to make a transgenic plant
Gmos definition,
Transgenic plants definition,
Gmos transgenic plants are produc...
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Lecture 7: Plastics from Plants
Advantages of plastics from plants,
Problems with plastics from plants,
Types of plastics that can be mad...
28
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Lecture 8: GM & crop protection: Herbicide tolerance
Threats to crop productivity,
By far the majority of gm crops a...,
Method behind herbicide tolerance...
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Lecture 9: GM and insect resistance: Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt)
Bt,
Bacillus thuringiensis is an,
Bacillus thuringiensis produces
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Lecture 10: GM and virus resistance: Opportunity or environmental disaster?
Example of plant virus,
Viruses are devastating ___ of ma...,
Treatments of viral plant disease...
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Lecture 11: control of crop diseases
Diseases are caused by,
Crop diseases are transmitted in ...,
3 important soil bored diseases i...
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Lecture 12: Golden rice: Discussion Forum
Positives,
Negatives
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Lecture 13: Agricultural productivity and light interception 1
Most animal products derive from,
Of fats oils come from plants,
What 3 crops account for nearly a...
25
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Lecture 14: Light interception 2. Evolution of crop plants
Light interception is affected by,
Why is it optimal leaves move,
Heliotropism
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Lecture 15: Evolution of crop plants and the Green Revolution
Domestication of edible plants ha...,
Domestication of edible plants ov...,
Large scale food production enabl...
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Lecture 16: Source sink interactions
Three stages of crop production,
Source,
Sink
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Lecture 17: How crops can be used for biofuels
One of the main challenges set by...,
Types of biofuels,
First generation biofuels
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Lecture 18: Biofuels 2
Dedicated biofueld crops energy g...,
Dedicated perennial energy crops ...,
Miscanthus as a perennial energy ...
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READINGS:
Wu et al 2008,
Godfrey et al 2010,
Bale et al 2008
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